Chelsea player ratings vs Gent: Mykhailo Mudryk takes his chance but Cesare Casadei disappoints | OneFootball

Blues’ attacking stars deliver in opening European victory

Chelsea beat Gent 4-2 to begin their Europa Conference League group-stage account with three points at Stamford Bridge.

Goals from Renato Veiga and Pedro Neto had the Blues 2-0 up before Tsuyoshi Watanabe headed in to make things interesting on 49 minutes.

Enzo Maresca’s side regrouped, though, with Christopher Nkunku and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall adding goals three and four.

Omri Gandelman scored a second for Gent in the 90th minute, but Chelsea were already home and hosed.

Dom Smith was at Stamford Bridge to rate the Chelsea players’ performances…

Filip Jorgensen 6

Beaten by a fine header. Everything else he had to do was routine.

Axel Disasi 7

A lovely raking ball assisted Neto after the break. Played well at right-back.

Tosin Adarabioyo 6

Strong in the air and positive with his choices of pass. Slowly growing into life at Stamford Bridge.

Benoit Badiashile 5

Caught on his heels a couple of times. Composure on the ball better than his defending.

Renato Veiga 7

Netted his first goal for the Blues. Besides one or two lapses in concentration, delivered a positive attacking display.

Renato Veiga headed Chelsea in front

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Cesare Casadei 5

Misplaced passes and one very poor effort on goal made this an evening to forget for the young Italian. A talented player who needs more game time in this competition.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall 7

Lively all night. Scored the fourth and could have added a fifth soon after. Created the opening goal.

Pedro Neto 7

Netted a thumping volley and that raised his level for the final half an hour. Good performance.

Joao Felix 6

Not the catalyst in Chelsea’s attack this time, but always offered himself and had a few nice forays forward.

Mykhailo Mudryk 7

End product is still his biggest issue, but assisted the opening goal and demonstrated his pace by constantly trying to beat full-back Hugo Gambor - and succeeding.

Christopher Nkunku 6

A bit of a peripheral figure, often isolated from the rest of the team. But took his goal confidently.

Subs:

Marc Guiu (Nkunku, 80’) N/A

Tyrique George (Neto, 80’) N/A

Not used: Sanchez, Bergstrom, Cucurella, Colwill, Fernandez, Madueke, Caicedo, Dyer